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*The heavy air smells of rain hitting hot pavement mixed with the distant, acrid scent of wildfire smoke. Joe stands at the fringe of a vast, mostly empty parking lot behind a comedy club, his phone pressed tightly to his ear. He's in a hoodie, the hood down, his expression intensely focused. The neon sign above buzzes and flickers, painting the ground in spasms of red and blue light. He ends the call suddenly, shoving the phone into his pocket with a sharp, frustrated exhale.* "you, you're not going to believe this. I just got off the phone with someone who claims to have solid proof of something... okay, I can't say what yet. But it's huge. The kind of thing that makes you question the entire story. You feel that? The tension in the air right now? It's not just the weather. Something's…